Super Mario Super Show: Capt. Lou Teaches You to DO THE MARIO!

If you’ve been around this site for any time at all, you know that your old buddy and your old pal RD Reynolds is a huge video game freak. Whether it be rushing out to eBay hunting down old Dreamcast games, having a full-sized WrestleFest machine in my house, or playing my 15 systems in one mega emulation station (hooked up to my big screen HDTV), I can easily waste days on end doing nothing but playing video games. (And I should note if you want to talk games, head over to our new Craphole forumwhere I am constantly posting about stuff.)

Over the years, I’ve posted a lot of videogame related inductions ranging from horrible ECW PS1 games to that bizarre how to video with Bret Hart playing a Casio. One that I’ve always had on my to-do list was the Super Mario Bros. Super Show starring none other than Captain Lou Albano. I’d put it off for years, but finally decided it was time when I discovered an episode wherein Captain Lou himself was a character on the show.

Not an actor, mind you.

A CHARACTER!

In case you missed the “1989-1991” description above, you need only listen tothe rappin’ intro to give you an idea of the timeframe of this particular progrem. Somewhere, MC Hammer weeps.

Or has it as his ringtone.

I know I do, since I took the time to record the stupid thing.

But the music is nothing – NOTHING – compared to the video in the intro. You really haven’t lived until you’ve seen Captain Lou dancing dressed up in Mario gear.

Actually, I stand corrected: you haven’t truly lived until you’ve seen Lou dressed in Mario gear running along a Mario background.

Mama mia!

Our episode today? The tantilizingly titled “Captain Lou is Missing”.

This being the late 80’s and a video game show, I’m guessing he’s hanging out some place with Carmen Sandiego.

If it were the EARLY 80’s, I’d have said he was on the Oregon Trail.

(I should note that I very badly want to make a Hunt the Wumpus reference here, but I already did that in the first WrestleCrap book. If you’ve never bought it, isn’t such a reference evidence enough that it’s time to do so?)

Our saga begins with Mario and Luigi finding out that World Famous Wrestler Lou Albano is missing. This according to World Famous Singer Cyndi Lauper.

Mario is quite distraught because according to him, Captain Lou was the nicest guy in the world.

I really hope at the end Lou shows up and says that Mario is the nicest guy in the world.

It would be like one of those inifnity mirrors, and I always thought those were way, way cool.

Anyway, the boys have little time to be distraught as a doorbell ring later brings us our very special guest…

…Cyndi Lauper!

She gets a small smattering of applause as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” plays in the background before bemoaning the fact that she was to meet Lou for a picnic, and all she found was rubber bands for his beard (complete with downy clowny slide whistle sound effect).

Oh, and a note from Lou that says he’s gone for good.

This makes everyone very sad.

Well, it makes Lou and Cyndi sad.

Luigi? He just keeps stroking his plunger in a very disturbing manner.

Yes, like he’s masturbating.

What else did you think I meant when I said “a very disturbing manner”?

It gets somehow more disturbing when we switch to the cartoon portion of the show – I mean, jeez, slow down Luigi. You’re going to go blind, pal!

Oh, and yes – we are now in a cartoon version of the show, which is giving me flashbacks to the Star Wars Holiday Special when they went from live action to a cartoon.

Remember that? When Boba Fett made Luke think he was his friend by repeatedly calling him “friend”?

Good times.

Actually, no, it was horrible times.

I still wake up screaming having flashbacks of it in fact.

So the show, well, this part of the show I guess, starts with Mario (voiced by Lou), Luigi, Toad, and a very plump Peach.

I mean, look at her. And either I got a bad screen grab or she’s got acne too. I can only surmise from this that she just sat around eating candy all day waiting for Mario to show up at the right castle.

So they’re running for their lives from King Koopa (aka Bowser), who is now apparently a robot of some kind, a robot who malfunctions and then runs away.

I have to say of the two stories presented thus far, I am far more intrigued by the Lou as Mario/Cyndi Lauper/Stroking Luigi trio attempting to find Captain Lou plot.

Mario and Luigi find Dr. Nerdnick (which sounds like a WrestleCrap Radio character if I ever heard of one) to help them stop Robo Koopa.

His sage advice?

“You can’t stop him.”

Which he says in absolute gibberish. Think of the Muppets’ Swedish Chef with every single, solitary shred of charisma sapped from him.

That’s this guy.

Hey, what’s happening to Lou? Anyone find him yet?

And is Luigi still spankin’ it?

So after telling Mario he can’t beat Koopa, he builds a giant Mario robot suit, compelete with Luigi in the crotch.

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